Bare Bones Barbell Club
Barebones Barbell Club of Tucson: strength training, power lifting, Olympic Lifting, private weight lifting facility
Crossfit Works, Inc., Fitness Centers,
Tucson, AZ

Life with Parallettes

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Danny from my 6pm class who is in the process of making many many new sets of parallettes for us.  Monday night’s classes gave Danny a little helping hand as part of our warm up.  Last year the CrossFit Games included hammering a spike into the ground so if sawing PVC is in next year you all have a leg up.  I know most of you are not intimate with the parallettes, but you should (and will) change all that.  Remember that you are supposed to have fun and play around in your gym.  Try new things, fall down (safely, duh).  If I added up my cumulative laugh time in this gym, a lot of it would settle down on a set of parallettes.  Stuff gets exceedingly difficult on the parallettes, but it is also a good, wrist-gentle, way to try out some gymnastics progressions and balancing exercises.  Just don’t forget to laugh when you fall over dozens of times.  I highly suggest you get busy with some parallette training so you can do these pushups soon…

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If you can carry on a conversation in French while you do it that will be awesome.  I bet he would have something to throw down at a grip strength competition too.

If that isn’t challenging enough for you perhaps this?

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